Former electric bus garage and re-charging station for the Brighton, Hove and Preston United Omnibus Co Ltd

The building at 25 Montague Place was constructed in 1908/9 as a charging station and garage for electric buses by the Brighton, Hove and Preston United Omnibus Co Ltd. It was designed by local architects Charles Clayton and Ernest Black. The building is of stock brick construction with painted masonry dressings. The pitched roof is a unique combination of patent glazing (glass held in slim metal bars) at the apex and eaves, slate-covered timber boarding in between, all supported by slender steel trusses. Timber doors and windows are original features.

The building has a simple rectangular plan, nine bays long and one bay wide, with its long sides facing north and south, and shorter, gabled sides facing east and west. The main entrance, facing Montague Place, features a shaped parapet gable with a painted masonry coping and a plinth of brown-glazed bricks. A large, central sliding double door is flanked by window openings with red brick dressings, a painted masonry lintel, and a moulded brick sill (also painted). Above the doors is a Venetian-style window opening, with painted masonry dressings, a cornice, and segmental pediment, although the windows themselves have been removed and the openings filled with concrete blockwork. Paving in front of the doors is made with 'Candy's' brick paving.

The north and south elevations have timber, horizontally hinged, six-light casements, each within a segmental brick arch. The north elevation has two further sets of double doors, one for personnel and one sliding; both are blocked-up internally.

Internally, the building was originally open to the underside of the roof and entirely un-subdivided, with just a single toilet cubicle in the northeast corner, which remains. A small mezzanine office has been built above this area, and a second mezzanine has been created as a tyre store in the southwest corner, with an office in-filling the ground level space. These mezzanines and associated offices are not considered features of special interest. The interior walls are painted brick, and the steel roof trusses have diagonal braces resting on brick piers with rounded corners; there is a ridge vent in every other bay.